— Andrei Platonov, Happy Moscow (via goodreadss)

Two former Tumblr employees said they were alarmed when Khalaf chose Black Lives Matter as an example of a community that the company should focus on converting into Yahoo media consumers. One told The Verge, “Simon explicitly said that Black Lives Matter was an opportunity to [make] a ton of money.”

also a note to non Jewish folks (by the way this is ok for you to reblog): chanukkah presents, if they are part of a family’s tradition at all, are in many families small things like new pencils or a piece of candy or a book, not large xmas type presents. and there are also lots of Jewish homes in which presents are not a tradition, & many homes in which they cannot be due to lack of money. chanukkah is not ‘the 8 days of Jewish xmas’ , it has been unfortunately marketed that way. it is a minor religious festival & major cultural one celebrated by many religious and secular Jews. and it is not about 8 days of presents. 

reblogs are ok and appreciated because holy shit this website is a hellhole

Like these are such misled questions that you’d have to answer completely different, unasked questions to actually help the person understand, but it also belies a really unfortunate fact about the history of evolutionary science and how natural selection was once, and for a really long time, studied as if evolution is a battle between superiors and inferiors. and this framework was developed for the purpose of economic and sociopolitical gain, and to justify bigotry toward marginalized peoples, and this framework still permeates how people teach and learn about natural selection. it worries me a lot!

i just heard about this book and it looks cute as heck. Very glad for the increasing number of multicultural Jewish books!

From my afternoon walk 🌼 ig // aithfay